GREENE, N.Y. — Plant Engineering magazine — one of the top publications for professionals in the manufacturing, plant design, operations and maintenance industry — has chosen the Raymond® 9000 Series Swing-Reach® lift truck as the 2009 Plant Engineering Product of the Year Silver award winner in the material handling category.

A panel of experts, chosen by Plant Engineering, selected the 9000 Series as one of the leading products in 2009. Ballots were received from 30 countries.

The Raymond 9000 Series Swing-Reach lift trucks offer energy-saving features, such as AC technology for long battery run times, and regenerative lowering that returns 11% of energy directly back to the battery.

The Plant Engineering Product of the Year Awards were presented at the 2010 Manufacturing/Automation Summit in Chicago this past spring.

The Raymond Corporation is a global provider of material handling solutions that improve space utilization and productivity, with lower cost of operation and greater operator acceptance. Raymond offers the iWarehouse™ system, an enterprise fleet optimization solution for warehouse and distribution center managers to collect and analyze real-time lift truck data to maximize fleet productivity and reduce costs. High-performance, reliable, ergonomically designed Raymond® lift trucks range from a full line of manual and electric pallet trucks and walkie stackers to counterbalanced trucks, Reach-Fork® trucks, orderpickers and dual-purpose (pallet handling/case picking) Swing-Reach® trucks.